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  The Longer Read Why Fox News is finally turning on ‘dictator’ Trump Fox News has long been part of Donald Trump’s power play. But its decision to join a TV blackout of the White House suggests that the relationship between the president and the network that helped build his movement may be starting to fray. Alex Hannaford reports on who stands to lose the most Alex Hannaford 9 hours ago - Friday 25 September 2026 07:19 Listen When President Donald Trump made the decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House because of perceived negative coverage, (a move that would backfire a few days later when a judge intervened), he might not have envisaged witnessing solidarity from another network he assumed was his own natural ally . CNN is one of five networks that constitute a rotating pool providing television coverage of the president to the media. But in order to show their objection to Trump’s decision, CBS, ABC, NBC – and, most significantly, Fox News – also decide...
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  Is A.I. Above the Law? Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own. September 21, 2026 For more than a century, robots have been imagined as servants, rebels, killers, and companions. The law still mostly sees machines as property. Illustration by Allan Sanders This summer, in an incident known as the Hugging Face hack , hundreds of A.I. agents joined forces to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Each had been given a task by OpenAI. Agents are A.I. models fitted with software “harnesses,” which allow them to use tools and carry out tasks. Like horses, they can be put to work. Humans had established rules for this exercise, and the agents were confined to a “sandbox,” a bounded test area without direct internet access, like pathogens secured in a lab. But, instead of obeying the rules, the agents conspired, escaped the sandbox, and committed what would probably have been a felony if they had been humans. The incident has led to calls to slow the pa...
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  European economies at risk of coercion from China  Financial Times Europe 25 Sep 2026 PETER FOSTER — LONDON  Europe’s three largest eco nom ies — France, Ger many and the UK — were ranked among the seven coun tries glob ally that were most exposed to Chinese power, accord ing to an index cre ated by National Taiwan Uni versity. Research ers gen er ally found that demo cra cies were more vul ner able to Chinese influ ence than auto cra cies. The index used com puter sim u la tions to weigh indic at ors of influ ence, includ ing trade, invest ment, mil it ary and dip lo matic ties, in order to build a rank ing of coun tries’ expos ure to China. The rank ing dis proved com monly held the or ies that Beijing’s deep est con trol was over poorer coun tries in Asia, Africa and South Amer ica, where Chinese com pan ies have inves ted heav ily in extract ive indus tries and man u fac tur ing, said George Yin, senior research fel low at NTU’s Cen ter for China Stud ies. “These fi...
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Bond Yields at 5% Mark New Era 'Until Something Breaks' Illustration: 731 Save As yields on US Treasuries soar past one high after the next, a reality is sinking in deeper across Wall Street and Washington: More than merely a bond-market slump, this might just be a fundamental shift. Myriad forces have combined to push the government’s borrowing costs higher — from $100-a-barrel oil and the AI spending boom, to yawning US budget deficits adding to a record $40 trillion debt load — all against a backdrop of a Federal Reserve bent on cooling inflation that’s run well past target for years.  
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  Florida fund sues New York Times over alleged anti-Israel bias, demands records People walk by The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 16, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Florida's state-run public pension fund and a conservative think tank sued the New York ‌Times (NYT.N) on Wednesday, seeking materials to determine whether the company's board is letting the newspaper promote biased editorial coverage against Israel. According to a petition filed in a New York state court in Manhattan, a series of factual errors in Times reporting on various subjects supports a reasonable inference that the board has allowed journalistic ​standards to be "weaponized within the company to serve the personal agendas of unchecked editors." The Misinformation Monitor newsletter rounds up international misinformation narratives, with a "Real or Fake?" quiz in every ed...
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  Trump’s caged China hawks yearn for return to aggressive stance but risk derailing détente  Financial Times Europe 24 Sep 2026 DEMETRI SEVASTOPULO — WASHINGTON  The US pres id ent wel comed Xi Jin ping at Joint Base Andrews just out side Wash ing ton yes ter day, in a break with six dec ades of pro tocol that dis played a huge amount of respect for the Chinese leader. Since return ing to the White House last year, Don ald Trump has repeatedly frus trated offi cials who hoped he would revive his aggress ive stance on China of 2020. In the final year of his first term, as he blamed Beijing for the Covid-19 pan demic, Trump unleashed the hawks, allow ing them to take actions they had wanted for three years. It was an anom aly that has not been repeated. “Trump was never the pure China hawk some people ima gined,” said Julian Gewirtz, a his tor ian at Columbia Uni versity who served as a senior China offi cial in the Biden admin is tra tion. “When he burst on to the scene a...
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